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Fresh Meat, from the Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, follows a group of six students in Manchester

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Disastrous house parties, washing-up wars and Shredded Wheat for dinner — not since The Young Ones has the comic potential of the university house-share been tapped for TV. But that is all set to change with Fresh Meat, from the Peep Show creators Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, which follows a group of six students at the University of Manchester.

Bain and Armstrong skewer the squalid living conditions and appalling behaviour familiar to anyone who has survived one of life’s great rites of passage. The freshers include Joe Thomas (The Inbetweeners), the stand-up comic Jack Whitehall and Gary McHugh,